A study on the development of observation equipment for soil microorganisms using vision system

Observation of microorganism that is collected from pollution soil has been mainly conducted by using microscopy. Microscopic measurement is occupied important part of a microorganism experiment, and is used as a important tool to count microorganisms as well as to observe cellular form and mode of life in the field of soil microbes observation. In general, observation equipments for soil microbes consist of electron microscope, camera, frame grabber (image acquisition baud), and image analysis software. Because, image analysis software should be linked with frame grabber as the equipments are used, most equipment has to be imported with package form. Therefore, the observation system is very expansion and difficult to operate. In this study, soil microbes' observation equipment with the vision system which is easy operating and cheaper than imported one was developed and tested. The efficiency of image capturing and data acquisition with developed frame grabber and software in this experiment was enough to analyze the image of soil microorganism.